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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1928
Page
4
Representatives of cities on a proposed air mail route formed in San Antonio will fly to Washington within two weeks to present a proposal before Assistant Postmaster General W. John Glover. Porter A. Whiles, secretary, announced Tuesday. The services of four airplanes have been donated for the trip.
C BE Mev Corbin, longtime associate federal hydraulic engineer with the board of water engineers in Texas, is named district engineer for the United States Geological Survey covering Alabama and Mississippi. The appointment comes from N C Craver in Washington and takes effect August 16. Corbin will move from Tuscaloosa to his new post, while regional leaders push for a southern Atlantic Pacific route via San Antonio and other Gulf and Western cities to Los Angeles.
A San Antonio woman believed to have been hurled from a car at South Presa Street and Thayer Avenue was jailed after emergency care at Robert R. Green hospital. Residents summoned police when she was seen in the street. hospital staff reported minor injuries before she was taken to jail.
Map shows present and proposed routes that will place San Antonio among the nation’s key air mail hubs. The city now connects with Chicago, and the plan would stretch to include Los Angeles as a station on the New Orleans to West Coast line, with Laredo and Mexico City also linked. Air experts gather here to discuss plans.
Italian navy divers to the submerged F-1 submarine near Pola, Adriatic, attach a pipe to supply air to the imprisoned crew. The sub normally carries 25 men under Captain Wiel. exact number aboard unknown. Rescue hinges on weather as divers probe in 130 foot depth, water flooding the vessel and risk of breached compartments.
Several men were fined 24 each for gambling after a car game interruption at a grainate house in the 266 block of Shiper alley. Defendants included Willie Martinez Aifoner-Ortexa Pedro Nadeiguez Francisca Alvarez Manuel Pena and Pete Villareal. Mike Livo arranged the arrest.
About 180 reserve officers of the 250th and 00th Infantry, Ninetieth Division, have reported at Fort am Mounton for active duty with the Second Division. The 259th Infantry is commanded by Lt. Col. Thomas J. Maroney of Tallon, training with the Twenty third Infantry, and the 860th Infantry under Col. The Ashbun of Houston, is trellog with the Ninth United.
A GE announcement reveals the first close up photo of natural lightning, showing a felon claiming ultra fast speed in a strange anecdote. The report notes a speed about five tenths of a millisecond and discusses the dramatic gauge of electricity.
San Antonio police reached full strength after the city commission approved fifty three additional officers and issued ten extra commissions. The commissions were requested by Police and Fire Commissioner Phil Wrinkl and submitted by the city clerk. Recipients listed include FL Jackson John Saladin Otto Reiling DB Covington and several others.
Albany Aug governor Al Smith wrote to Saratoga officials Sheriff Cromie District Attorney Smith and Public Safety Commissioner Sweeney that he has received a complaint alleging gambling and vice are threatening the famed racing meet at Saratoga Springs.
Aug 7 reports a 10 year old named Anilew Slemke leaped fifty feet to the ground at the Hoge of Detention and escaped injury. He was later arrested at his parents home on charges of stealing an automobile.
Judge John F. Onion cleared a heavy docket in corporation court with traffic fines up to 25 dollars and intoxication fines ranging from zero to 25 dollars. Numerous individuals are listed with varying fines for traffic violations vagrancy and disturbing the peace. The report also notes dismissals for several defendants. In Atlantic City the American Federation of Labor executive council adopted a neutral stance for the forthcoming campaign.
General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, will be a distinguished guest at the American Legion national convention in San Antonio. He will address the convention and participate as a key figure in the opening activities, announced by convention chairman Wal M. Washer after formal acceptance of the invitation.
Mrs Smethera, AS, who defended her sileca from younger rival’s advances, shot and killed Ted Church, 20, at her door as he forced entry. Church, intoxicated, was slain as officers say. Smethera waives preliminary hearing, bound over for October district court on $15,000 bond after entering not guilty plea claiming self defense.
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